Inalienable Human Quotes

#1. It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable human rights, he did so on the ground that they had been endowed by God, our Creator.

Tom Stoppard

#2. The freedom to own and carry the weapon of your choice is a natural, fundamental, and inalienable human, individual, civil, and Constitutional right - subject neither to the democratic process nor to arguments grounded in social utility.

L. Neil Smith

#3. Too often, attention is diverted from the needs of populations, insufficient emphasis is placed on work in the fields, and the goods of the earth are not given adequate protection. As a result, economic imbalance is produced, and the inalienable rights and dignity of every human person are ignored.

Pope Benedict XVI

#4. Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

Germaine Greer

#5. She laughed and broke into a run, racing out to grab handfuls of raindrops from the air, all alone in a world of diamonds.

Scott Westerfeld

#6. That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.

Hans Kung

#7. The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with shipwreck.

Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

#8. A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights.

Lucretia Mott

#9. The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.

Salmon P. Chase

#10. True unalienable rights do not require one to trample other unalienable rights.

J.S.B. Morse

#11. Dignity is something that all human beings have in common. We are all (all of us who have attained the "age of reason," that is) subject to its demands, whatever place in society we may happen to occupy, and it is this that gives us our inalienable inner value.

Michael Rosen

#12. She made us realize that human dignity is inalienable, and as long as there is still breath left in your body, there will always be something left to fight for.

Sam A. Patel

#13. You. Are. So. Amazing." His soft lips brush over mine, back and forth, over and over again as he begins to move inside me. "Rock with me, baby.

Kristen Proby

#14. To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#15. Factual information alone isn't sufficient to guide you through life's labyrinthine tests. You need and deserve regular deliveries of uncanny revelation. One of your inalienable rights as a human being should therefore be to receive a mysteriously useful omen every day of your life.

Rob Brezsny

#16. The respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inalienable social duty and should become one of the principles of human morality.

Maria Montessori

#17. One of your inalienable rights as a human being should be to receive a mysteriously useful omen every day of your life. - Rob Brezsny

Jake Ducey

#18. The freedom to share one's insights and judgments verbally or in writing is, just like the freedom to think, a holy and inalienable right of humanity that, as a universal human right, is above all the rights of princes.

Karl Friedrich Bahrdt

#19. Every human life is precious in God's sight and no effort should be spared in the attempt to promote throughout the world a genuine respect for the inalienable rights and dignity of individuals and peoples everywhere.

Pope Benedict XVI

#20. America was founded on the principle of inalienable rights, not dictated duties. The Declaration of Independence states that every human being has a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It does not state that he is born a slave to the needs of others.

Alex Epstein

#21. The lesson is clear: As impractical as it may sound, the safest and most secure way to lead your life is to follow your dream.

Douglas Bloch

#22. Our responsibility before God is an inalienable aspect of our human dignity. Its final expression will be on the day of judgment. Nobody will be sentenced without trial.

John R.W. Stott

#23. I like actors who are themselves. I know in America you like actors who change their nose or wear a lot of wigs, and they like to take pretty girls and make them super ugly.

Audrey Tautou

#24. When you been in stir a little while, you can smell a question comin' from hell to breakfast.

John Steinbeck

#25. Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.

Barbara Kingsolver

#26. What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.

Dominique De Menil